In October 2021, following two years of consultations with police, academics, government and community groups and civil society, the Canadian Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey was updated to enable the further disaggregation of hate crime data. In particular, the updates allowed for: 

• the collection of data on more specific categories of bias, including based on religion, "race"/ethnicity, orientation, disability, and gender; 
• the inclusion of new categories to record crimes targeting migrants and foreigners; 
• the inclusion of an anti-Roma hate crime category, to align reporting with ODIHR's hate crime strands; and 
• the inclusion of more than one bias motivation per crime, allowing for an analysis of intersectional bias motivations. 

This category captures hate crimes motivated by bias on the following grounds: Aboriginal, Arab/West Asian, Black, East and Southeast Asian, South Asian, White, Multiple Races/Ethnicities, Other race/ethnicity and unknown race/ethnicity and bias against language.

This category captures hate crimes motivated by bias against Catholics, members of other religions (e.g., Baptist, Greek Orthodox, Buddhist) and unknown religions. 

Includes hate crimes motivated by bias against male, female and unknown sex. 

This category includes 259 hate crimes committed with motivation based on bias against bisexual, heterosexual, gay and lesbian, other and unknown sexual orientation; and eight hate crimes committed on grounds of "other sex" (for example transgender or gender).